Before you start
- In a Team workspace, you can remove documents from a Team Brain if your role lets you add them. Readers cannot remove documents. See team roles and permissions.
- A document that is still being added cannot be removed until it finishes or fails.
Steps
1
Open the Brain
Click the Brain in the sidebar, or open it from the Brains page.
2
Find the document
Type part of its name in Search above the list. To find files that failed, click the Error tab.
3
Choose Delete
Hover over the document and click its … menu, or right-click the row. Choose Delete.
4
Confirm
Elephas asks Delete “name”? Its indexed content is removed. This cannot be undone. Click Delete.
How it works
What is removed
Past chats and citations
Your chats keep their answers. Citations to a removed document still show its name, and show Source no longer available instead of the passage. New questions no longer find anything in it.Personal Sync and Team Brains
- With Personal Sync on, removing a document from a Brain also removes it on your other devices.
- Removing a document from a Team Brain removes it for everyone who can open that Brain.
Disk space
Removing a document frees the space Elephas used for its copy, its older versions, its extracted text and its index. Elephas keeps a copy of every file you add, so a large Brain can use about as much space as the files themselves, plus its index. See large libraries.Troubleshooting
The document came back
The document came back
If you add the same file or folder again, the document is added again. With Personal Sync, check that the deletion has reached your other devices. See sync troubleshooting.
I removed a document by mistake
I removed a document by mistake
Removing cannot be undone, but your original file is unchanged. Add it again. Old citations to the removed copy stay unavailable.